Lineup: Carcas Sniffer – Looped vocal noise and pedal skullduggery | Craig McElhinney – Winner of the PAWPAW for best Male [...]]]> Oh yes, we’re turning it up to 11, possibly even 11 and a bit at this NoizeMaschin!! Tuesday 22nd May, 7:30pm. $10 entry for non-members and non-performers. Bar d’Factory drinks & earplugs available.

Lineup: Carcas Sniffer – Looped vocal noise and pedal skullduggery | Craig McElhinney – Winner of the PAWPAW for best Male Artist finally gets to show us why | Chris Cobilis – Will Chris top his much talked about “sausage-fest” performance from 2011? Time will tell… | Lee Yoresh – Harsh noise as only Lee Yoresh can do | I.n0.jaQ – Artist in residency gives us an audio-update of his project | Sam Gillies – Just found a contact mic. Will put it to good use, along with some vocoded feedback | Dr Vellocet – The centre of steam-punk attention returns with some more noisy offerings!

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We have the arcophones, steam ostrich, the cartesian crane, arduinos and DMX lights to play with, and Nathan Thompson’s Solar Snare – all in a central city location in AC’ed glass-walled comfort. I have my soldering [...]]]> Once again the Artifactory has its own little secret base above the frolicking weekend masses at the Northbridge Piazza.

We have the arcophones, steam ostrich, the cartesian crane, arduinos and DMX lights to play with, and Nathan Thompson’s Solar Snare – all in a central city location in AC’ed glass-walled comfort. I have my soldering iron and components there, so live hacking is definitely possible.

We’re open to the public from 12-6 Saturday and Sunday. In practice we get a few people every 30 minutes or so – nothing onerous – you can defintely get on with electronics work, and it’s fun building up your show-n-tell skills and patter.

SATURDAY NIGHT is the Bladerunner immersive cinema extravaganza – free! – there will be lots of blade runner themed street theatre as well as the movie; was thinking we can play with the robo-lights and smoke machine and make a replicant security station. Nerf guns are a go!

SUNDAY is the Piazza’s Electric fair – so our gizmos and electric vehicles are in hot demand. SKoT says: “I’ll bring my e-bike down for show and tell, if anyone else feels like it we could have a ride around Northbridge making a nusiance of our electrified selves – We have spare vintage brass squeezy horns to honk obnoxiously as we whizz about…”

For those confused as to what the Northbridge Piazza is: the square with the big TV on Lake and James street, Northbridge. We are in the super modern glass-and-steel box directly looking over the picnicers – instant stage for mad science whackiness.

So bring your STL’s and join us for a night of 3D printing, Arduino hacking and Pizza!

We want to run a workshop (in early autumn 2013) that tackles the rather broad topic of collaboration and we are holding a meeting at 3.30pm this Thursday to talk through the possibilities and gauge interest.

Why: To discuss the possibilities for running a workshop (outlined below) and [...]]]> Calling all inventive and creative people.

We want to run a workshop (in early autumn 2013) that tackles the rather broad topic of collaboration and we are holding a meeting at 3.30pm this Thursday to talk through the possibilities and gauge interest.

Meeting

Why: To discuss the possibilities for running a workshop (outlined below) and talk about a similar workshop held in 2009.
When: This Thursday 22 March
Time: 5.30pm
Where: The Perth Artifactory: 8/16 Guthrie st, Osborne Park

Workshop Description So Far (for a workshop to be held in Autumn 2013)

Aims:

• To demystify collaborative practice and begin to use it as a potent way of working.
• To scale some of the communication barriers between different disciplines.
• To learn from each other; to learn how to work, play and create in groups.
• To become more confident in our own expression.

Proposed structure:

• It will be about a week long, away from the city and its daily pressures and interruptions. This will allow us to focus on expanding creative processes without rushing.
• This workshop is exploratory and experimental. It is not outcomes-based. It is a chance to develop creatively and professionally in a supportive and generous environment.
• Much of the workshop structure and content will be determined by the participants in preparation for and during the workshop.

If you are interested we will be very excited to hear from you and/or see you on Thursday!  For updates, or to contact us, please visit the Facebook events page at http://www.facebook.com/events/318791604842649/.

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Arduino University returns with a MIDI specialization evening – perfect for the budding DIY music interface builder, installation artist, experimental musician or modular synth builder.The format for the evening will be a series of self-paced hands-on examples with guiding notes and sketch-code, with our resident MIDI and Arduino experts on hand for help. [...]]]>

Arduino University returns with a MIDI specialization evening – perfect for the budding DIY music interface builder, installation artist, experimental musician or modular synth builder.The format for the evening will be a series of self-paced hands-on examples with guiding notes and sketch-code, with our resident MIDI and Arduino experts on hand for help. You can even get lessons on using our CNC router Swarf-O-Mat to build your own custom MIDI control surface enclosure! $10 for non-members. Limited Arduinos and MIDI shields available, email us to reserve one. Attendees will ideally have a laptop, MIDI interface, USB cable, Arduino, MIDI cable, and possibly a MIDI synth.

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Construction of a new CNC machine has begun under the working title “Son Of Swarf-O-Mat”. This will be a 3 axis ‘bot; with a moving X-table, fixed Y-gantry and mobile Z attached to Y. Our existing CNC machine, Swarf-O-Mat (senior), will cut all parts from aluminium, prototyping in MDF first. Last night John [...]]]>

Construction of a new CNC machine has begun under the working title “Son Of Swarf-O-Mat”. This will be a 3 axis ‘bot; with a moving X-table, fixed Y-gantry and mobile Z attached to Y. Our existing CNC machine, Swarf-O-Mat (senior), will cut all parts from aluminium, prototyping in MDF first. Last night John started design work on NEMA-17 to NEMA-23 adapter plates to affix steppers to the linear bearings, and Jason & SKoT designed and cut two connector plates which allow us to bolt the Y and Z bearings into a single unit. Prototyping in MDF proved useful – we discovered our initial design made access to some of the bolt holes impractical, so a Mk2 with improved access and wider counter sink recesses resulted in short order. Hurrah for iterative design and rapid robot-assisted prototyping!